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Scottish guitarist Ian Bairnson, who carried out the solo on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, and collaborated with the likes of Paul McCartney, Sting and Mick Fleetwood, has died aged 69 following a battle with dementia.
The information was introduced by his spouse, Leila Bairnson, on social media.
In an announcement she wrote: ‘It's with deep disappointment and remorse that I let you recognize that my loving husband Ian Bairnson has handed away on Friday seventh April.’
‘Ian was the sweetest, kindest, loving husband I might ever have wished for and I take consolation that he's resting now up there in his very personal piece of Blue Blue Sky.
‘Though Ian has left us, his musical legacy stays with us and can proceed to thrill and brighten our lives, because it did his, ceaselessly.’
Within the put up she additionally thanked the medical doctors and nurses at Frimley Park Hospital and the managers and carers at Lynwood Care House, in addition to their households and shut pals ‘for the love and help they've offered us throughout these difficult years of Ian’s lengthy battle with dementia’.
Born in Lerwick, Shetland Isles in August 1953, Bairnson he grew up in Levenwick, earlier than his household moved to Edinburgh when he was 9 following the dying of his father.
He was a session guitarist earlier than becoming a member of up with former Bay Metropolis Rollers musicians David Paton and Invoice Lyall to kind the band Pilot in 1973.
A number of members of that band would then go on to kind the The Alan Parsons Challenge, a British rock band that was collectively from 1975 to 1990.
Releasing eleven studio albums throughout that 15-year interval, the band was recognized for music that targeted on science fiction, supernatural, literary and sociological themes.
A multi-instrumentalist, Bairnson performed saxophone and keyboards, however was finest often known as a guitarist.
All through his time within the band, he additionally performed on Kate Bush’s first 4 albums The Kick Inside (1978), the place he notably performed the guitar solo on Wuthering Heights, Lionheart (1978), By no means for Ever (1980) and The Dreaming (1982).
He has additionally performed with the band Bucks Fizz, co-writing two of their Prime 20 hits, If You Can’t Stand the Warmth (1982) and Run for Your Life (1983).
Alongside his session profession he performed on greater than 100 albums, together with with artists like Joe Cocker, Jon Anderson, Chris DeBurgh, Mick Fleetwood and Neil Diamond and performed stay with Sting, Eric Clapton and Beverley Craven.
In 2018 Leila introduced that he had been identified with a progressive neurological situation that was affecting his communication expertise, so he would now not be capable to play in public.
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